The Spectator, Zväzok 2George Atherton Aitken Longmans, Green, & Company, 1898 |
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Strana 13
... consider- able on this side the gallery ; there were indeed several others whom I had not time to look into . One of them , however , I could not forbear observing , who was very busy in retouching the finest pieces , though he produced ...
... consider- able on this side the gallery ; there were indeed several others whom I had not time to look into . One of them , however , I could not forbear observing , who was very busy in retouching the finest pieces , though he produced ...
Strana 41
... consider that , as the term of life is short , that of beauty is much shorter . The finest skin wrinkles in a few years , and loses the strength of its colouring so soon , that we have scarce time to admire it . I might embellish this ...
... consider that , as the term of life is short , that of beauty is much shorter . The finest skin wrinkles in a few years , and loses the strength of its colouring so soon , that we have scarce time to admire it . I might embellish this ...
Strana 42
... consider what a strange figure she will make if she chances to get over all difficulties , and comes to a final resolution in that unseasonable part of her life . A I would not however be understood , by anything I have here said , to ...
... consider what a strange figure she will make if she chances to get over all difficulties , and comes to a final resolution in that unseasonable part of her life . A I would not however be understood , by anything I have here said , to ...
Strana 59
... consider mankind as wholly inconsistent with itself in a point that bears some affinity to the former . Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general , we are wishing every period of it at an end . The minor longs to be at ...
... consider mankind as wholly inconsistent with itself in a point that bears some affinity to the former . Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general , we are wishing every period of it at an end . The minor longs to be at ...
Strana 62
... consider further that the exercise of virtue is not only an amusement for the time it lasts , but that its influence extends to those parts of our existence which lie beyond the grave , and that our whole eternity is to take its colour ...
... consider further that the exercise of virtue is not only an amusement for the time it lasts , but that its influence extends to those parts of our existence which lie beyond the grave , and that our whole eternity is to take its colour ...
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Strana 142 - How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which "is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing almost as soon as it is created ? Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of...
Strana 371 - Bagdat, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, 'Surely,' said I, 'man is but a shadow and life a dream.
Strana 59 - We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
Strana 146 - He has often told me, that at his coming to his estate he found his parishioners very irregular: and that in order to make them kneel and join in the responses, he gave every one of them a hassock and a common-prayer book...
Strana 166 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Strana 118 - Roger, who is very well acquainted with my humour, lets me rise and go to bed when I please, dine at his own table or in my chamber as I think fit, sit still and say nothing without bidding me be merry.
Strana 117 - HAVING often received an invitation from my friend Sir Roger de Coverley to pass away a month with him in the country...
Strana 121 - Calamy, with several living authors who have published discourses of practical divinity. I no sooner saw this venerable man in the pulpit, but I very much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice ; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the...
Strana 122 - ... much approved of my friend's insisting upon the qualifications of a good aspect and a clear voice; for I was so charmed with the gracefulness of his figure and delivery, as well as with the discourses he pronounced, that I think I never passed any time more to my satisfaction. A sermon repeated after this manner, is like the composition of a poet in the mouth of a graceful actor.
Strana 370 - Mirzah," which I have read over with great pleasure. I intend to give it to the public when I have no other entertainment for them ; and shall begin with the first vision, which I have translated word for word as follows : — " On the fifth day of the moon, which according to the custom of my forefathers I always...